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Wat is de kortste weg van a naar b, als je niet weet wat b is of waar het ligt? In dit sprankelende vervolg op het succesvolle Blikwisselingen betoogt Robbert Dijkgraaf op overtuigende wijze hoe belangrijk verwondering, intuïtie, kunst en creativiteit zijn in de wetenschap.Met aanstekelijk enthousiasme laat hij zien hoe de zoektocht naar een antwoord op de schijnbaar nutteloze vraag hoe de wereld in elkaar zit, diezelfde wereld ingrijpend verandert en de moeite waard maakt.Van legoblokjes tot wondergetallen, van de oerknal tot de maanlanding, van de Groenlandse ijskap tot de Nederlandse politiek in Dijkgraafs visie is wetenschap overal om ons heen, mateloos fascinerend en voor iedereen toegankelijk. Het nut van nutteloos onderzoek is hier zelf het beste bewijs van.
Science --- wetenschap
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Het universum en alles daarin - jij en ik inbegrepen - is opgebouwd uit minuscule deeltjes. In het DWDD University-college "Het allerkleinste" onthulde Robbert Dijkgraaf, de bekendste wetenschapper van Nederland, deze legoblokjes van de werkelijkheid. Samen met striptekenaar Dirk Ridder maakt hij in dit stripboek een reis door de kosmos. De twee bezoeken de wereld van cellen, moleculen, atomen en vreemde elementaire deeltjes zoals neutrino's: de bouwstenen van het hele universum. Ga je mee?
Didactics of physics --- moleculen --- elementaire deeltjes --- quantumtheorie --- atomen
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A short, provocative book about why "useless" science often leads to humanity's greatest technological breakthroughsA forty-year tightening of funding for scientific research has meant that resources are increasingly directed toward applied or practical outcomes, with the intent of creating products of immediate value. In such a scenario, it makes sense to focus on the most identifiable and urgent problems, right? Actually, it doesn't. In his classic essay "The Usefulness of Useless Knowledge," Abraham Flexner, the founding director of the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton and the man who helped bring Albert Einstein to the United States, describes a great paradox of scientific research. The search for answers to deep questions, motivated solely by curiosity and without concern for applications, often leads not only to the greatest scientific discoveries but also to the most revolutionary technological breakthroughs. In short, no quantum mechanics, no computer chips.This brief book includes Flexner's timeless 1939 essay alongside a new companion essay by Robbert Dijkgraaf, the Institute's current director, in which he shows that Flexner's defense of the value of "the unobstructed pursuit of useless knowledge" may be even more relevant today than it was in the early twentieth century. Dijkgraaf describes how basic research has led to major transformations in the past century and explains why it is an essential precondition of innovation and the first step in social and cultural change. He makes the case that society can achieve deeper understanding and practical progress today and tomorrow only by truly valuing and substantially funding the curiosity-driven "pursuit of useless knowledge" in both the sciences and the humanities.
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A short, provocative book about why "useless" science often leads to humanity's greatest technological breakthroughsA forty-year tightening of funding for scientific research has meant that resources are increasingly directed toward applied or practical outcomes, with the intent of creating products of immediate value. In such a scenario, it makes sense to focus on the most identifiable and urgent problems, right? Actually, it doesn't. In his classic essay "The Usefulness of Useless Knowledge," Abraham Flexner, the founding director of the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton and the man who helped bring Albert Einstein to the United States, describes a great paradox of scientific research. The search for answers to deep questions, motivated solely by curiosity and without concern for applications, often leads not only to the greatest scientific discoveries but also to the most revolutionary technological breakthroughs. In short, no quantum mechanics, no computer chips.This brief book includes Flexner's timeless 1939 essay alongside a new companion essay by Robbert Dijkgraaf, the Institute's current director, in which he shows that Flexner's defense of the value of "the unobstructed pursuit of useless knowledge" may be even more relevant today than it was in the early twentieth century. Dijkgraaf describes how basic research has led to major transformations in the past century and explains why it is an essential precondition of innovation and the first step in social and cultural change. He makes the case that society can achieve deeper understanding and practical progress today and tomorrow only by truly valuing and substantially funding the curiosity-driven "pursuit of useless knowledge" in both the sciences and the humanities.
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